The Salt Lake Tso Mitbál, in Pangkóng. Tibet

June 1856

Chromolithograph on paper

Print Size: 12.25 x 14.75 in (31 x 37.2 cm)
With Mount: 18.5 x 21 in (47.2 x 53.5 cm)

Well-defined marks of successive deposits, corresponding to the gradual evaporation of the water, surround the shores of the lake, whose former... is still visible to the right of the mountain in the centre. On the left of the same mountain lies the way to Chusel. In the foreground is... a Tibetan salt trader with his flock of sheep.

Schlagintweit Brothers
Alexander von Humboldt suggested that the East India Company hire the Schlagintweit brothers (Hermann, Adolf, and Robert) to lead a scientific trip in the Himalayas in 1854. The goal was to study the Earth’s magnetic field. Between 1854 and 1857, they traveled in the Deccan and the Himalayas, sometimes together and sometimes alone. They looked into frontiers beyond the company’s borders, like the Karakorum and Kunlun mountains.

Hermann and Robert were the first people from Europe to cross the Kunlun. In 1864, the title or last name Sakünlünski was given to Hermann in honor of this feat. Early in 1857, Robert went back to Europe. Hermann joined him on his trip home after visiting Nepal, but the Amir of Kashgar killed Adolf, who stayed in Central Asia to continue his travels. Between 1861 and 1866, Hermann and Robert published a four-volume work with an atlas called Results of a Scientific Mission to India and High Asia, Undertaken Between the Years MDCCCLIV. And MDCCCLVIII: By Order of the Court of Directors of the Honorable East India Company by Hermann, Adolphe, and Robert De Schlagintweit / With an Atlas of Panoramas, Views, and Maps. This work is believed to be one of the best examples of lithographic printing of 19th-century topographical views.

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